The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-09
County News.

masters salaries, The salary of Post
master Newell Of Salem is increased
The Directors of salem Bank have de
clared their usual |semi-anuual dividend
of five per cent.
Salem's only celebration Of the Fomtl
was two games Of baseball. The
printers beat the clerks by d score OF
81 to %. The Fenwick club played a
picked nine and furnished some amuse.
ment.
The South J]ersegmou's printers were
so crippled in their hands 10y playing
baseball ON Monday that issuing the
paper was delayed a half day.
Salem county has three brick factor
les: Fairview works in l.. Penus Neck,
Seott's at P%entonville, and Haiues &
Sons at Yorktown. All are running
to their full capacity.
A horse owned by Donnelly Il Wa
terman, liyerymen, of Salem. was
stolen on Monday night from Samuel
Freneh's stables in Woodstown.
Seven glass blowers completed their
apprenticeship in the Salem factories
last week.
Mrs. Hannah Green. of l.. A. Creek
broke a duck egg last Thursday forcul
mary purposes aud was greatly surpris-
ed to find that it was a double egg, one
egg being inclosed inside of the other,
both perfect and covered with hard
shells.
VIM. Robinson, of YORKTOWN lost
his stallion "Young Volunteer" last
week from spasmotic cholic. The
horse was the sire of Jersey Boy, "
whose record is 2.2l4, and of HYorbe-
town BelF' ,33, and numerous others.
The late Harry l.. Shape had his life
insured for 5 $500.
There are now over sixty families
living within the ground of Pitmau
Grove camp, aud over thirty in the i'm
mediate vicinity OUTSIDE the grounds
making in all nearly 100 families in the
place.
There appears to be a disposition i'll
Cumberland county among certain Re
publican leaders to antagonize the re-
nomination of Assemblyman Hawkins
.., - It, ,y,Gstg4l IN yratA tAls
| General Sewell for Senator in the Re
publican causus.
In the upper part OF the State the
| farmers have been moving by moon
light to escape the intense heat of the
day.
A few days ago, for the first time IN
the history of Cumberland county, a
colored man served oil a Coroner's jury.
On tearing down an old log house at
Sw~edesboro lately the W%hitewash that
had been applied from time to time was
found to be oAe-and-a-half inches thick.
The outlook Tor a big cranb erry crop
III Ocean county is 0 excellent.
The contract for the erection Of the
new bank building at Woodbury. has
been awarded to William l.. Steel X
Son, of Philadelphia, for $40, 100, and
it is to be completed by january |.
State Treasurer Toffey and Comptrol-
Ter Anderson have designated the two
Woodbury. banks as State depositaries.
The West Jersey Railroad Company
has purchased ten acres of land from
/! the Dlckerson farm, near the southern
| edge of Woodbury., at $500 per acre, for
the purpose of enlarging its facilities
there. A ro~und-house, freight station,
turn table and side tracks will be plac-
ed on the new purchase.
The following additional money or
der post offices have been established
in the State Cape May Court House,
Jamesburg, Sea Isle City, and Stewards
vile.
Harry 5. Tallman, a native o SwedeS
boro, formerly in the First National
Bank of Philadelphia, is cashier of the
new Bank at Woodbury..
Over forty priests were present at the
Catholic College, Vineland. on Satur-
day at thl ordination of seven students
of that institution to the priesthood,
they being the same who received dea-
cons orders from Bishop O'Farell in
the immaculate Conception Church,
Camden, last week.
The Swedesbor0 National Bank has
declared a semi-anmual dividend OF two
per cent.
Tommy and Ella Mayhem, respec-
lively eleven and nine years old, left
their home in Clayton recently to go to
Philadelphia, he to become a neWsboy
| and size to be his partner. After walk
| mg to Westville, fifteen miles from
home, they were overtaken and brought
back. Tommy had read Of the wonder
ful performances OF a newsboy in nov
81 and he had set out with a knife hnd
toy pistol to become one.
Married.
GABRINON-SliULL.-On June